German Miscellany
1358–1359
A homiliary copied in the mid-fourteenth century, important for the history of Middle Bulgarian orthography.
The object
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Why it matters
One of nineteen manuscripts whose colophons name Ivan Alexander, written across roughly half a century. Six of those were made to the tsar's own order; the rest, like this one, were made elsewhere and for other patrons, and mention him anyway.
That distinction is the point. A ruler named in books he did not pay for is a ruler whose name scribes reached for by habit — which is a different and better kind of evidence than a commissioned dedication.
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Description
- Date
- 1358–1359
- Language
- Middle Bulgarian